- Can migration improve poor people's livelihoods?
- C. Waddington / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2003
- This paper reviews the literature on households and communities that use migration as a means to diversify household activities, to improve capacity and flexibility to respond to external shocks, and simply to reduce the number of peo...
- How remittances may have helped reduce poverty in Bangladesh
- R. Afsar / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper reviews the relationships between migration and development in Bangladesh, focussing on conditions and entitlements in the labour market and the consequences of migration, including remittances and their effects on poverty ...
- Migration in Pakistan: who migrates, where, and what are the policy challenges?
- H. Gazdar / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper reviews the various issues surrounding migration into, out of, and within Pakistan, drawing on sources including population census data, official data on foreign exchange remittances sent by Pakistanis abroad, and estimates...
- Impacts of internal and international migration on Indian development
- R. Srivastava; S.K. Sasikumar / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper reviews both internal migration in India and emigration of Indians to other countries, drawing on secondary sources to profile migrant workers, and to identify the causes and impacts of migration. Its findings inclu...
- Bangladesh government policy on international migration
- T. Siddiqui / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- This paper outlines the history of migration from Bangladesh; identifies the numbers and profile of international migrants; examines labour market conditions and remittance flows; and analyses government policies and programmes for ma...
- Challenges posed by increased numbers of non-resident workers for multiculturalism in Singapore
- B.S.A. Yeoh / Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, 2004
- This paper details the history of migration into Singapore and profiles the current situation of migrants living there. It explains that: the non-resident population of Singapore expanded from 3 per cent of the total p...
- Characteristics of Vietnamese migrants in the 1990s
- D.N. Anh; C. Tacoli; H.X. Thanh / Eldis Document Store, 2003
- Internal and international migration has significantly increased in Vietnam since the economic reforms of 1986. This paper reviews patterns of migration in Vietnam in the 1990s, drawing on national census data, in order to gain insigh...
- Migration and brain drain may not be as bad as previously theorised
- F. Docquier; H. Rapoport / World Bank, 2004
- This paper examines the consequences of skilled migration for developing countries. The authors first present new evidence on the magnitude of migration of skilled workers at the international level and then discuss its direct and ind...
- Helping older people who care for grandchildren orphaned and affected by AIDS
- Fiona Clark; Caroline Halmshaw / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- An estimated 13 million children under the age of 15 have already lost either one or both parents to HIV/AIDS. A further 40 million children will lose their parents within the next 10 years. As the HIV/AIDS epidemic hits families in A...
- Collection of articles examines migration and domestic labour in Arab states
- S. Esim; M. Smith / International Labour Organization, 2004
- This document examines migration of women in Arab states, focusing particularly on domestic workers. The authors examine international policy surrounding migration, as well as stocks and flows of migrant women in Arab states. These st...
- Can the Indian diaspora in the United State play the role of facilitator between New Delhi and Washington?
- A. Gupta / Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, 2004
- As the Indian diaspora has begun to assert its financial and political power in the United States since the 1990’s, the Indian government has been developing a process of granting dual-citizenship to certain persons of Indian ori...
- Understanding old age and poverty in South Africa
- Julian May / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- South Africa has one of Africa’s most rapidly ageing populations. Of those aged 50 or over, 25% are chronically poor. Compelled to continue productive and reproductive activities well into old age, the older poor fulfil an import...
- Managing migration optimally for the benefit of all
- P. Martin / Copenhagen Consensus, 2004
- Many countries receiving migrants are attempting to manage immigration by discouraging potential migrants through tighter controls and restrictions of benefits. This paper argues that this is not an optimal solution. Rather, the overa...
- Migration too complex for pure environment argument
- F. Flintan / Engendering Eden, Cork, 2001
- This paper assesses the relevancy of the concept of 'environmental refugees'. It begins by defining the term and discussing the four main causes of environmental migration: human-induced environmental change en...
- Non-contributory pensions – costly luxury or weapon against poverty?
- Armando Barrientos / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2004
- Although the incidence of old age poverty in developing countries is high and set to increase further there is considerable resistance to establishing non-contributory pension programmes. It is often argued that they are unaffordable,...
- Finding correlations between international migration, remittances and poverty reduction
- R.H. Adams; J. Page / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2003
- This paper examines the impact of international migration and remittances on poverty in a broad cross-section of developing countries. It constructs a new data set on poverty, international migration, and remittances for 74 low- and m...
- Online mobilization and publishing for African civil society
- S. Niombo / Information Technology and International Cooperation Programme, SSRC, 2003
- African civil society organizations have begun slowly to appropriate the Internet. Some of them have experienced on line mobilization and publishing. What are the challenges they meet in disseminating information through Internet ? Wh...
- Main characteristics of labour migration in Asia
- International Organization for Migration, 2003
- This book explores the new patterns and trends that are emerging in labour migration in Asia, which are affected by not just the labour market, but also national and social circumstances. It presents a compendium of labour migration p...
- Compensating the costs of health worker migration for developing countries
- B. Stilwell / Human Resources for Health, 2003
- It is estimated that in 2000 almost 175 million people, or 2.9% of the world's population, were living outside their country of birth. Medical practitioners and nurses represent a small proportion of highly skilled workers who migrate...
- What are the causes of migration in Cambodia?
- U. Haapala / Mekonginfo, 2003
- This study looks at migration in Cambodia to understand the interconnections between villagers’ livelihoods, environmental changes and migration, particularly in Tonle Sap. The study examines the reasons behind the migration, rur...
- Center for Ethnic and Migration Studies (CEDEM)
- The CEDEM is an interfaculty centre which aims to carry out theoretical and empirical research in the fields of human migrations, ethnic relations and racism. Among others, the Centre is interested in the relations between migration processes and uneven development. These researches are led in a pluri-disciplinary perspective: political science, sociology, anthropology, international relations, la...
- Institute for Human Security
- Based at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, the Institute for Human Security is a new university-wide institute, which endeavours to further interdisciplinary research on all aspects related to human security as defined by the United Nations and encourages an ongoing dialogue between academia, development agencies and policy makers.
- Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU] (RAU)
- The Research and Advocacy Unit [RAU] is an independent, non-governmental organisation. Its Mission is to provide high-quality research for the purposes of relevant and current policy change. RAU is run by a Management Committee composed of experienced researchers and advocacy experts.RAU’s work to date has focused on three major areas that are important in the current crisis in Zimbabwe: Wom...
- African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS)
- The ACMS is an independent, interdisciplinary and internationally engaged Africa-based centre of excellence for research and teaching that shapes global discourse on human mobility, development and social transformation.
- INFOCON
- INFOCON aims to promote a better understanding of how Civil Society Organisations representing Transnational Communities can work on preventing and resolving conflicts in Europe and worldwide. Financed by the EU under the Seventh Framework Programme, this three-year research project was launched in April 2008.
- December 18
- Migration advocacy organisation
- The Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG)
- Te Irish Centre for Social Gerontology (ICSG) is a multidisciplinary research centre on ageing at NUI Galway. ICSG focuses on research, education and training in the field of social gerontology in Ireland and internationally. There is a specific research focus on rural gerontology, the economics of ageing and on technology and ageing.
- Caritas Europa
- Caritas Europa brings together 48 organisations that are active in 44 European countries. It is one of the seven regions of Caritas Internationalis, a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations. Caritas Europa focuses its activities on issues related to poverty and social inequality, migration and asylum within all countries of Europe, humanitari...
- The Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA) (CoRMSA)
Strengthening partnerships between refugee and migrant service providers
- UN global initiative to fight trafficking
- Fighting human trafficking
